I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say:
May what I do flow from me like a river
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.
~Rainer Maria Rilke~
Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
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I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
Love that line. I love Rilke.
Chris
“I will sing you as no one ever has” there need be no other purpose in life.
That is my favorite line in this poem! I hope he knew that he did indeed ‘sing you as no one ever has’…